YOU HEAR THAT? (BOOK ONE OF The SENECA GUN CASES): sound comes first. Someone dies before morning. (A Police Procedural Horror Novel): 1

The sound comes first. Someone dies before morning.A window-rattling boom awakens communities along New York's Finger Lakes. There is no earthquake, no storm, and no trace of an explosion. By sunrise, a missing surveyor is found dead beside an abandoned railroad tunnel.State Police Investigator Claire Mercer soon discovers that the victim had been studying a forgotten underground network, and that his death may be connected to earlier unexplained booms known locally as the Seneca Guns.The deeper Claire investigates, the more disturbing the pattern becomes. Previous victims all owned property above sealed tunnels. Old military-testing records have vanished. Survey maps have been altered. Witnesses report hearing explosions from places where nothing happened.Someone is using a centuries-old mystery to conceal murder.When another boom shakes the lakeshore, Claire realizes it is more than a warning. The killer knows she has uncovered the pattern, and the next victim has already been chosen.Inspired by the documented Seneca Guns phenomenon, YOU HEAR THAT? is a tense, atmospheric police procedural horror novel combining forensic investigation, hidden tunnels, local folklore, and a realistic murder mystery beneath the quiet communities of upstate New York.